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Obregon, Carlos - 2023

In social sciences there has been a long debate between the defenders of institutionalism and those of liberalism. The debate has centered around the relationship that exists between the individual (agent) and the social institutions (social structure). In general, liberalism defends that the...

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Today’s Problems: In The Minds of The Great Economists

Obregon, Carlos - 2021

This book presents the history of economic thought as it relates to today’s most pressing problems, and it emphasizes the critical connection that exists between what may seem cold, unrealistic mathematical economic models, and the quality of everyday life of any citizen of the planet earth....

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Dadabhai Naoroji – from economic nationalism to political nationalism

Islahi, Abdul Azim - 1995

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) was among the leading Indian nationalist leaders who aroused the feeling of economic nationalism and propagated for it. The most instrumental in this regard had been his theory of drain. The paper studies this theory and its role in awakening the desire and movement...

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Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung

Lenz, Rainer; Steinhaus, Carol - 2010

Internationalization receives top priority in nearly any university mission state-ment. But why? What is the value of internationalization for a university? Is the purpose to improve a university’s ranking, or to explore new revenue sources by entering foreign, mostly Asian, educational...

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Ética y Justicia. Reflexiones a partir de The Idea of Justice de Amartya Sen

Mejía Cubillos, Javier - 2012

This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of … Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen … Justice proposed by Sen has clear pragmatic features and does not pretend to determine an ideal set of conditions under which …

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Evidence based pursuit of happiness: What should we know, do we know and can we get to know?

Veenhoven, Ruut - 2012

The rational pursuit of happiness requires knowledge of happiness and in particular answers to the following four questions: 1: Is greater happiness realistically possible? 2: If so, to what extent is that in our own hands? 3: How can we get happier? What things should be considered in the...

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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises

Albers, Scott - 2012

This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...

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Nobel prize for Amartya Sen: a recognition to ethical dimensions of economics

Islahi, Abdul Azim - 1998

Nobel prize to Professor Amartya Sen is a recognition to value based orientation and ethical dimensions of economics …

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Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology: Notes on the Concept of (Dis)embeddedness

Cardoso Machado, Nuno Miguel - 2011

Within the context of the New Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi is almost universally considered the “father” of the concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its relationship to the remaining theoretical edifice...

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The Money of the Mind and the God of Commodities – The real abstraction according to Sohn-Rethel

Cardoso Machado, Nuno Miguel - 2013

According to Sohn-Rethel there is a “secret identity” between commodity form and thought form. Commodity exchange is a real abstraction – embodied in money – and constitutes a social a priori which reflects itself in the conceptual abstraction, i.e., in the abstract thought typical of...

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